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    Comment #28197349

    Because there is nothing else to buy. Real global growth is almost zero, so the dollars around the world are starting to come back, but as I mentioned, there is almost nothing else…

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    Comment #27757172

    > there is no reason to believe that, in the absence of a centralizing force, the weights should standardize. That force is commerce, and it has almost never been absent in human h…

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    Comment #27734886

    No you cannot. Government is stopping you by preventing companies from hiring workers for more than they allow. That is the reason people get two or even three jobs.

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    Comment #27734782

    > It's so weird to me to see people argue against a shorter work week. No one is arguing against a shorter work week, that's just misrepresenting the position. Furthermore, you've …

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    Comment #27734524

    They are so unlikely, everyone else that didn't make it feels entitled to tell them how to be successful.

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    Comment #27732914

    They are literally threatening to split Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Google. Crime is up 1000% and people like you are dismissing it. It is a safe city if you never bother to walk into…

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    Comment #27729730

    > If you think there are not strategists taking the best available information an d making 30 year plans then you are quite mistaken. So they planed all of this then, 30 years ago …

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    Comment #27719775

    > I have a feeling people who don’t get the vaccine are going to end up in camps. I know that’s already true in some countries. That is a lie. In no country that is happening. I me…

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    Comment #27701532

    Blaming others for your position in life will not change your situation. Divisiveness through lies like this, when there are plenty of examples to refute it, is not the solution. Y…

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    Comment #27701493

    He means rich families where also once poor.

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    Comment #27518831

    Innovation requires instability. Europe decided long ago that life security and 'quality of life' was their goal, which is a worthy goal, but every decision you make means there is…

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    Comment #27480810

    Aren't prosperity and wealth things we want to see? We shouldn't tax wealth at all, that is what we want, a wealthy society.

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    Comment #27480753

    There is only one that matters, the number of graduates working in a field unrelated to the degree.

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    Comment #27462430

    In a gold standard the price of gold would not be 'above its free market valuation' but it would be the market valuation, taking into account its rediscovered monetary role. In a g…

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    Comment #27453031

    They are not required to accept them, OnlyFans is doing it just fine without Apple. They chose to be in Apple's platform. Voluntarily.

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    Comment #27452989

    Yeah, computing is not a market. I get you are trying to win an easy sentimental argument, but making your own market definitions will not make them a monopoly. Apple sells product…

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    Comment #27452883

    Apple doesn't have a monopoly on any market.

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    Comment #27452849

    If you engage with those actors accepting the terms that is exactly what it means.

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    Comment #27452835

    Because it's America and they can decide to charge whatever they want for their product?

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    Comment #27435664

    Like today? It has always been a race to the bottom, that is why things are cheaper today which means life is better today, and that is why we invent technology to momentarily be o…

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    Comment #27435635

    It looks fantastic, is Ford reinventing itself as a 'ford'ward looking company? Sedans are out trucks are in, and trucks are what Ford does best. In a few years if the offer a sub …

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    Comment #27418387

    It was the lack laws preventing you from charging whatever you wanted for your own labor, and the lack of laws that forced you to give away a significant portion of that wage.

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    Comment #27416683

    What speech is illegal? What is the list of words not allowed by law to be spoken?

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    Comment #27416173

    Free speech is the only “right” that matters. Thoughtcrime should not be allowed to be prosecuted, mob lynching is not justice. But if the ACLU is compromised maybe it is too late.…